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Reference Material Regarding an Underwear-free Lifestyle
FAQ
How can I make my bulge and VPL more evident when freeballing?
Wearing ballweights or certain types of cock rings press your junk forward. Tighter pants or sweatpants can also emphasize the bulge.
Should I worry about pre-cum saturation or post restroom wet spots?
If your intent is to be lewd and draw attention to yourself, fuck no. You might even engage in a rare deviance called piss blossoming where you wet your pants in public.
If you are at work and are not attempting to be lewd, but instead, signalling you have a huge package or balls (literal or figuratively), then yes. Shake multiple times and steer away from porn.
Should I be concerned about chaffing?
Most freeballers consider the seams and fit during the purchase pants and shorts to avoid this issue. Tighter pants may mean greater chaffing.
What considerations should I make while shopping?
You need to feel how your cock and balls will feel against the fabric and seams of your shorts/pants, so ideally, you should shit and shower before shopping so you are fresh, clean, and considerate for those who may try on clothing after you.
Other Materials
Military Eytomology of 'Going Commando'
The term commando refers a member of a military assault unit or team trained to operate quickly and aggressively in especially urgent, threatening situations, as against terrorists holding hostages (Dictionary.com, n.d.).
Supposedly, at one point, Army Regulation (AR) 670–1, Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia stated that only special forces could go without underwear to streamline their uniforms while on missions. AR 670-1.20-32.C.3. states that males will wear drawers with all uniforms (Department of Army, 2021). Navy Regulation (NR) 3501.102 indicates underwear should be worn right side out but does not list underwear as a requirement (Department of the Navy, 2021). Soldiers note that after basic training, nobody inspects or regulates underwear (G. Joe, personal communication 2025).
An alternate theory suggests that during the Vietnam War, soldiers would not wear underwear to prevent chaffing and fungal infection in the humid jungles.
Non-military Eytomology of 'Going Commando'
From the lexicographer, John Ayoto (2010) and the BBC archives:
Linguists talk of lexical gaps – concepts or things that don’t have a particular word or phrase with which we can refer to them.
Now here’s a concept to conjure with: to go about in public fully clothed as far as your outer clothing is concerned, but without any underpants. You might not find it surprising that until quite recently, English had no single expression to refer to this curious practice, but now it has two.
One is ‘free balling’, and the other, which in the last few years has become quite widely known, is ‘go commando’. This seems to have originated, perhaps as early as the 1970s, as a slang term on American college campuses, but the reasons behind it remain mysterious.
Now commandos are soldiers who go on surprise raids into enemy territory, and some have claimed that there may be a practical explanation for the phrase: perhaps that commandos find that underpants are uncomfortable and restrict their movement, or even waste too much time to take off if they suddenly need to go to the toilet.
Or is it more symbolic: that strong, brave, active men, as we suppose commandos to be, don’t wear underpants? We’ll probably never know for sure, but it’s comforting that such a glaring gap in English vocabulary has at last been filled.
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